Typographical composing and distributing mechanism



May 27 192,4.

TYPOGRAPHICAL COMPOSING AND DISTRIBUTING MECHANISM Filed April 5. 1923 1 C. MUEHLEISEN Patented May 27, 1924 i UNITED STATES PATENT oFFIcEQ] CARL MUEHLEISEN, F BERLIN, GERMANY, ASSIGrNOR TO MEBG-ENTHALER LIN O'IYPE COMPANY, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

TYPOGRAPHICAL COMPOSING AND DISTRIBUTING MECHANISM;

Application filed April 5, 1923. SerialNo. 629,969.

I '0 (ZZZ "whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL MUEHLEISEN, a citizen of the United States of America, and residing at Sellerstrasse 13, Berlin, N.

39, Germany, have invented new and useful adjustment of the magazine column is effected by cams engaging with rollers pivoted on the magazine base frame, each of these cams having as many lobes as thereare magazines in the column, and each lobe serves to support the said column in a particular position according to the particular magazine for the time being in use.

In machines of the character above particularized, any magazine which it is desired to remove from the column, has to be wi thdrawn over the assembler entrance and assembler front plate, but before this can be done, the magazine column has to be adjusted to a position intermediate of those appropriate to the difierent working positions of the respective magazines; moreover when it is the lowermost magazine which has to be removed, and which, when in normal operative position, stands below the level of the top. of the assembler? front plate, this magazine must be raised by the usual lifting levers or arms which, in Wellknown manner, are temporarily applied to studs fast on thesidesof-sai'd magazine, and serve further as tracks 01" guides. to that magazine during its withdrawal, and as supports preparatory to its being lifted off said levers.

The foregoing means therefore are some what inconvenient so far as regards. the

lowermost magazine, and it is an object of the present invention to overcome this difficulty by so constructing the magazine column adjusting cams that, besides serving to support the magazines in their respective working positions, they also serve to support them in other positions from which they can be slidden directly on to the guide levers or arms. I

The invention will now be more particularly described by reference to the accompanying drawing which is a sideelevation of suflicient of a machine to illustrate the embodiment therein of said invention, the machine here represented as an example being provided with a columnof three magazines.

These magazines are respectively identi fied by the reference numerals 1, 2 and 3, while the magazine base frame is identified by the numeral 4. r 7

On the base frame 4 there are pivotally mounted three rollers of which only two 5-, 6, are visible in the drawing, and each of these rollers engages with one of three grooved cams of which again only two,- 7, 8, are represented. As ordinarily, a single cam 7 is located near the front of the ma chine to engage the roller 5', and two cams 8- are located near the back, each to engage one of the rollers 6; as, however, the two rollers-6 and the two cams 8 are respectively co-axial, those farther-from the reader,

that is to say nearer the left-hand side of the machine, are'obscu red by the roller and cam nearer the right-hand side; a

The cams 7, 8 have each the ordinary three lobes or dwells a, b and 0 with which the rollers 5, 6 engage when the top iii-agazine 1, middle magazine Zia-rid bottom mag;- azine 3 respectively are inoperative position.

According to thepresent invention, the cams 7, 8 are each. provided with three additional dwells d, e and f so located thereon that when they are; presented to the rollers: 5, 6, the magazine 1, 2 or 3' respectivel'y, will be in register with the arms or levers 9 which, like those, hereinbefore mentioned, serve as tracks along which the said magazine can be slid'den: during-its 11gmoval; in the representation given in the drawing, the dwells f are in co-operation with the rollers 55, 6 so that, as a consequence thereof, it is the bottom magazine which is 'in position for removal.

ordinarily, is fast to a shaft 11. On this shaft are secured two bevelpinions 12 each :meshing with a bevel gear wheel 13 operatively fast to one of the cams 7, 8.

On the shaft 11 there is also secured a locking disc 1a having a single peripheral recess adapted to receive the rear end of a locking lever 15 pivoted to a stationary part of the machine frame 16, the bevel gear wheels 12, 13 being so proportioned as to require a complete rotation Or a number of complete rotations to be imparted to the shaft 11 for moving the magazines from one to another of their operative positions; by these means a single peripheral recess in the disc 14 and a single locking lever 15 suffice for locking the magazines in all of their operative positions.

To enable the shaft 11 to be locked in any of the intermediate positions, that is to say, the positions in which the dwells d or 6 Or 1 of the cams 7 8 are presented to the rollers'o, 6, the crank handle 10 is provided with a socket 17, and the foremost bearing 18 of the shaft 11, is provided with a perforated lug 19 with which the socket is adapted to register when the shaft is in any of the above named intermediate positions, and when the said socket and lug are thus in register, they can be locked together by passing through them a locking pin 20 shown in the drawing hanging in its inoperative or normal position.

From the foregoing it will be seen that when an operative change of one magazine 2 for another is to be effected by raising or lowering the magazine column, the locking lever 15 must first be released from the disc 14, and then the crank handle 10 must be rotated the number 'of times necessary to complete such change, the lever 15 being thereafter re-engaged with the disc 14 for preventing further movement of the magazine column. hen it is desired to remove a magazine from the machine, the locking lever is released from the disc 14: and the shaft 11 is turned until thedesired dwells d, or e, or f are presented to the rollers 55, 6, at which juncture the socket 17 and lug 19 being in register, a temporary locking of the magazine column is effected by passing the pin 20 through 17 and 19 as previously descirbed.

It will be obvious that the foregoing improvements are capable of embodiment in machines having more or less magazines than the number (three) shown in the illustrated example, it being necessary for any such other numbers merely to vary cor respondingly the number of dwells on the 2. In a typographical composing and distributing mechanism, the combination with a column of superposed magazines adjustable to bring each of them into its respective operative'position and cams operative to effect such adjustment, saidcamsflhaving dwells thereon adapted to support the magazine column in positions respectively intermediate of their operative positions, of locking means operative to retain the cams in position to support the magazine column I in said intermediate positions.

3. In a typographical composing and dis-' tributing mechanism, the combination with a column of superposed magazines adjustable to bring each'of them into its respective operative position and cams operative to effect such adjustment, said cams having dwells thereon adapted to support the magazine column in positions respectively intermediate of their operative positions, of locking means operative to retain the cams in position to support the magazine column with any of the magazines in operative position and in positions intermediate of said operative positions.

4;. In a typographical composing and distributing mechanism, the combination with a column of superposed magazines adjustable to bring each of them into its respective operative position, of cams operative to effect such adjustment, said cams having dwells thereon adapted tosupport the magazine column in positions respectively intermediate of their operative positions, gear operative to rotate the cams, and lockative to retain the gear and cams in position to support the magazine column with any of the magazines in operative position and in positions intermediate of said operative positions.

6. In atypographical composing and distributing mechanism, the combination with a column of superposed magazines adjustable to bring each of them into its respective operative position, of cams operative to efiect such adjustment, said cams having dwells thereon adapted to support the magazine column in positions respectively intermediate of their operative positions,

I gear operative to rotate the cams, a crank handle operatively fast to the gear, and locking means operative to retain the gear and cams in position to support the magazine column in said intermediate positions, the

2 gear being such as to necessitate the turning of the crank handle through one or more 7. In a typographicalcomposing and di s v tributing mechanism, the combination with a column of superposed magazines adjustable to bring each magazlne lnto 1ts respective operative position, and arms adapted'to support a magazine during its withdrawal from the machine, of cams operative to effect the adjustment of the magazines, said cams having dwells thereon adapted to; support the magazine column in position respectively intermediate of their operative positions and in which one or other of the magazines is in tracking alignment with the arms.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed" my 7 signature hereto.

CARL MUEHLEISEN. 

